My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of Texas:
I sent a property manager a proper 30-day notice that I would not be renewing my agreement with him to manage my property. He has violated the terms which require him to get my approval for repairs over $500. He also went three times over budget in the initial renovations without my permission. That's why I did not renew. I sent the tenant written notice that the agreement was at an end and to send her rent to me.
The property manager told the tenant that the agreement was still in force and to send the rent to him. Apparently she did so. I have gotten no money nor accounting from this guy -it's the 13th and rent was due the first. The lease has my name as landlord but directs rent payments to the property manager.
He does have a clause that management fees are required throughout the term of the lease, even if the property management agreement ends. I understand that - however, the first tenant he rented to broke the prior lease, causing the term of the new tenant's lease to overlap. Normally a tenant breaking a lease is responsible for all fees associated with reletting. So it is my contention that the manager should go to them for his fees.
What can I do, he does not respond to calls or emails? This is a person I trusted as I had known him for a long time and his father was friends with my father going back to the early 1950s. To me this is fraud or at least stealing the rent from me. Thanks.

